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The Role of Genetics in Heart Disease: Can You Prevent It?

MIBHS

While much attention is given to modifiable risk factors such as diet, exercise, and smoking, the role of genetics in heart disease is equally critical yet less understood by the general public. Specific genetic variants, such as those affecting cholesterol metabolism, can increase the likelihood of plaque buildup in the arteries.

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No Plaque, No Problem: Tackling Atherosclerosis Prevention

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

Urbanization, increased sedentary lifestyles, and unhealthy diets have fueled this trend. These cases are particularly challenging because traditional prevention strategies, which target known risks like high LDL cholesterol, hypertension, diabetes, and smoking, may not apply.

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Cholesterol’s Star Role in Dementia Prevention: New Insights from the 2024 Lancet Dementia Report 

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

Newly included risk factors— untreated vision loss and high LDL cholesterol —underscore the critical role of these elements in maintaining cognitive health. The Cholesterol Connection Cholesterol’s recognition as a risk factor for dementia marks a pivotal advancement in understanding, preventing, and delaying cognitive decline.

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Harnessing digital health to optimise the delivery of guideline-based cardiac rehabilitation during COVID-19: an observational study

Open Heart

Patients received access to a bespoke web-based platform and were invited to attend weekly, online group-based supervised exercise sessions and educational workshops. Adherence to the Mediterranean diet score improved from 5.2 Outcomes were assessed at baseline, end of programme and at 6-month follow-up. kg, p<0.001). p<0.001).

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Wrong lessons in lipidology : Eradicating LDL is not our goal !

Dr. S. Venkatesan MD

10kg) Out of which just 250 mg of cholesterol is streaming in blood. We must understand Fat, lipid and cholesterol are different entities. While the total body seems to do little in determining cholesterol levels, what is more scientifically shocking is slope of the curve between blood LDL levels and plaque burden is rarely linear.

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Abstract 4136995: Veterans Affairs (VA) Lipid Optimization Reimagined Quality Improvement Program (VALOR-QI) in Veterans with Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD) at the San Juan VA

Circulation

VA sites work with an AHA QI consultant to develop and deploy a local quality improvement plan to help overcome site specific barriers preventing Veterans from achieving optimal cholesterol levels. Once the patient starts with a new lipid medication, they are followed in 3 months with labs.

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New Guidelines on Peripheral Artery Disease Issued by American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology and Leading Medical Societies

DAIC

Risk factors for PAD include smoking; having Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, chronic kidney disease, atherosclerosis in other parts of the body (such as coronary artery disease); and being age 75 years or older. and Global Data From the American Heart Association. Black adults with PAD in the U.S.